Gardaí wearing bodyworn cameras, which Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said have been very successful in tackling anti-social behaviour and de-escalating situations. Photograph: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
“We’ve seen a particular increase in the theft of goods and items, but we’ve also seen a change in people’s behaviours,” she said on Thursday. “People would recognise that there’s more aggression out there, that there is changed behaviours and challenging behaviours that we hadn’t seen before.” “It’s working on the basis that about 40 per cent of this retail crime is committed by about 8 or 9 per cent of people, so if you were to target and identify those individuals, you are straight away almost halving the issues in our shops, that is already under way,” she said.
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